I want to protect you and your loved ones from becoming victims of crimes by the catholic church and all abusers of human beings. I want to give survivors of sexual and physical abuse a voice to be heard all over the world. All abuse of children and adults by religious groups and by any organization or individual must be stopped. We can add our voices to a growing, worldwide community of people who want truth and justice. Please share your experiences with me and others on this blog.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Pope Francis: When you talk about the filthy world don’t forget the dirty-handed bishops

How dirty are your hands bishop Myers?

Earlier
this year (2/21/1) I wrote about Newark Archbishop John J. Myers spending his
weekends at his 4,500-square-foot $800,000 home on 8.2 wooded acres in the
hills of Hunterdon County, NJ. If that wasn’t enough misuse of funds, parishioners
were angered when they found that the archdiocese was spending $500,000 for a
3,000 sq. foot addition with a 28-foot by 28-foot gallery and a "wellness
room" with a hot tub and a 14-foot by 7-foot Endless Pool. This is where Myers
will retire.

It
gets worse. Besides his obvious greed,
Myers has long been accused of sheltering abusive priests. A group of advocates
for molestation victims who call themselves the Catholic Whistleblowers, urged
Pope Francis to use the new Vatican tribunal he formed on negligent bishops to
investigate Myers. The Whistleblowers, who are priests, nuns and canon lawyers,
said they will present evidence to the Vatican that Myers has been persistently
hostile toward people who come forward with abuse allegations, and had left
guilty clerics in parishes in the Newark archdiocese and in his previous post
as bishop of Peoria, Illinois.

The
Associated Press article noted that Pope Francis will visit the U.S. in
September but the “unfinished business of the molestation scandal is hanging
over the trip. The Press went on to say, ”The crisis erupted in 2002 with the
case of one pedophile priest in the Archdiocese of Boston before spreading
nationwide, then engulfing the Roman Catholic Church.”

While
hundreds of accused clergymen have been barred from serving as priests there
has been no direct penalty for bishops who covered up allegations and kept the
clerics on the job. Myers came under heavy criticism in 2013 after he allowed Michael
Fugee, a now defrocked priest who had been accused of groping a teenage boy, to
attend youth retreats and hear confessions from minors –even though prosecutors
had barred him from contact with minors. Myers also had privately allowed
another priest who had been removed over molestation claims to live in the
rectory of a church with a school and youth groups.

In
Peoria, Larry and Helen Rainforth, parents of a son (one of 13 people) who
received a settlement over abuse by former priest Norman Goodman, said Myers
threatened people who came forward with libel lawsuits and excommunication.

While
the official Vatican itinerary for the pope's U.S. trip doesn’t say Francis
plans to address the issue of bishop cover-ups like that of Myers’ there are
those who think he will face it. Let’s just do it Francis – you owe it to the
children past and present who are abused by your clergy. You said the world is
filthy – well so are the hands of the bishops who enable sexual abuse of
children.

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About Me

When I was three and a half years old, I and my five year
old brother Frankie were raped by a catholic priest and put in St. Agnes Home and School in Sparkill, NY. I was beaten every day and then smothered by a catholic
nun. I didn't die but I was in a coma for almost year, leaving me brain damaged. After we got out, my
brother killed himself because he couldn't help me or accept the abuse we received. I want everyone to know
about the brutality and crime then and still going on in the catholic church. I want to stop
the crimes the church commits against our children and us and get justice for the victims. Give me your ideas
so that we all succeed in making this world safer for our children.